Mudlark
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Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books
Publication Date
July 21, 2026
July 21, 2026
Format
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Pages
400
400
ISBN-13
979-8-21-709249-9
979-8-21-709249-9
Jenny Sweet's marriage is ending—and with it her band and maybe even her fragile relationship with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Neko. A reluctant wife and mother, Jenny plans a new journey of self-discovery after one more gig at Burning Man. But when Neko disappears amid the chaos of the festival, Jenny fears that everything that mattered to her has been lost. As she races against the dark, Jenny finds herself thrown into the past, and into the heart of a gathering storm.
Now twenty-five, Neko is a mudlark: a trained recruit who braves the rival factions and feral survivalists in the ruins of a crumbling, flooded Manhattan for resources that grow scarcer by the day. When she stumbles upon the master of her mother’s long-lost solo album and later hears that someone else is searching for it—someone who could be her mother, missing for over a decade—she embarks on a perilous adventure with a ragtag crew that will take her from treetop societies to decadent raves to the underground bunker where she will, finally, confront her mother's fate—and her own.
Now twenty-five, Neko is a mudlark: a trained recruit who braves the rival factions and feral survivalists in the ruins of a crumbling, flooded Manhattan for resources that grow scarcer by the day. When she stumbles upon the master of her mother’s long-lost solo album and later hears that someone else is searching for it—someone who could be her mother, missing for over a decade—she embarks on a perilous adventure with a ragtag crew that will take her from treetop societies to decadent raves to the underground bunker where she will, finally, confront her mother's fate—and her own.
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Edition Info
Publisher / Imprint
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books
Publication Date
July 21, 2026
July 21, 2026
Format
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Trade Paperback / Unabridged
Pages
400
400
ISBN-13
979-8-21-709249-9
979-8-21-709249-9